Marge Theretard

So my brothers are totally justified in calling me Marge Theretard. Don't get me wrong, I'm actually a pretty intelligent person - I've always done well in school and on standardized tests. Dude, I was even runner-up in my elementary school's geography bee (let's not talk about the fact that I lost to a kid 2 years younger than me, ok?). But I also do really stupid things pretty often. For example just tonight when I was making dinner I got a fork stuck in the garbage disposal and it took me a good 30 or 40 seconds to figure out how to turn it off when I just turned it on and I have used it hundreds of times before. I can talk for hours about Middle Eastern politics, but I confuse Ice Cube and LL Cool J. I knew that Dave Henderson played for the San Francisco Giants for a season, but when playing a sports trivia game with my brothers, I was forced to be steady card reader after not knowing what "south paw" meant. I am the girl who would get a 100% on a Calculus test and then forget the combination to my locker. Most of the time my stupidity is innocent enough. On occassion, however, it rises to the level of being self-destructive... like getting wasted the weekend after getting out of the hosptial or hooking up with a guy with a live-in girlfriend. But in the end, the big things are few and far between and the small ones, well, they are funny and keep me human. So feel free to make fun, being able to take a joke is one of those things you learn when you have 4 brothers.